Within 90 minutes of being asked to write the first official Sherlock Holmes mystery since Conan Doyle, Anthony Horowitz had the plot. DAVID ROBINSON meets a one-man publishing phenomenon
SUPPOSE, for a moment, that you are a writer. A man offers to take you out for lunch to a tapas restaurant in Soho where he promises he has an interesting proposition to put to you.
And he’s right: he does. Over lunch, he reveals that he represents the estate of Arthur Conan Doyle. How would you feel, he asks, about writing the first new Sherlock Holmes novel for almost a century?
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